Fully agree, look the right to bear arms is there to protect us. The founding fathers had enough foresight that government is and always will be imperfect, and in the inevitable event that government get too big for its britches we have a gun or guns to protect us...for now.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Things like regulation, patriot act, etc only encourages additional power at the top. However, obviously the first thing I stated is only going to start another long debate about how regulation cures everything.
Thats fucking ridiculous...they are there to protect us not to fuck us...
police are NOT there to protect you. The police are there to enforce law compliance and investigate crimes, they are not your personal protection force, they view the general population as the enemy.
They have to be off-duty sometime or another lol. But if people just stand and watch the rights being stripped from another..then they will continue.
Isn't the motto To Protect and To Serve? I suppose there's a bit of a paradox there, you don't know if they protect and serve you or their government? I suppose the latter is true of the present day.
Think about it through the eyes of a cop. All you see all day is people committing crimes and acting like idiots. After a while they become mindless drones to the system.
Yea, they become desensitized, like people who go to war that see death every day.
I was considering being a police officer, because I like to help people. That idea went out the window with my personal resolve in the idea that I do not support the governments laws and the way it treats its people, and to become an officer would be simply selling myself out.
I dont know bout yous guys but i dont think me having this conversation is taking my drive for action. I come on here all the time to have political and sometimes religion discussions (hell sometimes you guys challenge my beliefs and the way i think and its awesome) and i still go out and vote, i still show support for my politician of choice. However i do get the vector your coming from, there are alot of distractions that keep us really having to deal with important things like the state of our nation. I almost hate sports simply due to the fact that people are more worried about the fucking Mavs winning (go Mavs) than they are about a bill that turns or fucking president into a dictator (weather it has a chance to pass or not). Add on video games im sure MW3 is on most everyones mind more than economy taking a trip to Shite Drive and Greece Road. Lets just move to Canada...how are things up there any who? lol
Talking about it is helping, because we are sharing ideas with each other and furthering messages which we will use when it's our turn to vote. The more annoying thing about Americans is their ignorance to it all. I know a kid who was a felon but it was judicated to a misdemeanor after 5 year probation and he was so excited. I asked him if he was excited to vote and he said why would I do that? He told me he didn't care to vote because he didn't know anything about politics and felt it didn't affect him anyways. I don't understand why he was so excited and felt so accomplished to have a felony removed if the best benefit to this is the right to vote and that didn't even matter to him...
Amen brother ill toke to that.
The United States Is Not Supposed to be A Democracy! And i'm all for peace and debate, but if those are the rules then what do they have all those guns and tanks and bombs and tear gas for?